How are career development opportunities at HDR?

great work culture and opportunities to advance your career

matrix organization set up can be confusing to understand

Great work culture and puts a value on your career growth.

They are slow to react to some areas of the marketing and are very conservative about their approach. However, this does not necessarily reflect poorly on the company, as they take calculated risks.

Culture, work-life-blance, career building projects

will require overtime on occasion, can be hard to create opportunities for career growth when in a group that is already developed

The company really cares about its employees and their career development. There were lots of opportunities to further education, attend conferences, and for promotions. I felt they paid well, provided good benefits, and gave merit based raises annually.

Some of the projects were kind of boring.

Supportive management and mentorship opportunities Collaborative team environment Strong emphasis on professional development Flexible work schedule

Limited career advancement opportunities Occasional communication issues between departments Workload can be overwhelming at peak times

Company provides great opportunities for growth as long as you work hard and have a positive relationship with your peers and executive management.

Fulltime remote work is not an option and does not help with the growth within the organization if one chooses to.

Meaningful work that makes a difference in communities; Talented, kind, and supportive coworkers; Opportunities to grow through mentorship and project exposure

Compensation below market, especially for early-career roles; Benefits are rigid and not tailored to younger or diverse employees; Lack of transparency in pay structure and advancement criteria

There are no pros to this company. If you try searching the job market they have a lot of openings and all their postings are onsite. They are constantly starving for skilled workforce. They hire people to get resources and contacts of clients. They are constantly stalking their competitors and its employees to make sure they are quoting projects low in comparison to their competitors. They use newly hired interns and EITs without proper guidance or training to execute the jobs, EIT's who are graduates in Bachelors or Masters in Engineering are compelled to do drafting as the senior drafters and BIM modelers play a lot of dirty politics. EITs are awarded for best performance for the drafting task and not for engineering calculations generated! Huge turnaround of employees since the upper management is constantly micromanaging their employees. Hey you know something, the office admins conduct rounds to mark attendance and late commers. They constantly harass you on your time away from your seats and are constantly monitoring your ID punch in and out. Think hundred times before you accept a job offer here as their work culture is totally opposite to what's marketed in the job postings. Lots of groupism and favoritism by race. You are a prisoner and slave at work as there is no work life balance.

They do not pay for your licenses even though their job postings require you to be licensed. They do not pay you overtime. They require you to charge your overtime hours on your PTO. Only the upper management (who are actually big time overheads) gets the perks of license reimbursement or overtime pay! There is constant micromanagement on your time at office all 5 days of the week. There were Engineers who were forced to work during weekends & late hours due to huge work backlogs are were not properly compensated for their overtime even after they raised their concerns to the upper management, were finally forced to quit their job. You are denied access to USB ports or flash drives on the company laptop or desktop, Career opportunities are given based on favoritism, Zero value for talents as they strip you down of your position whenever they want. Even though the company claims to be employee owned you don't sense an employee owned culture at their workplace,

the work environment is very good.

The career development is slow

Good firm that has strong support for career growth and development. Opportunities to buy company shares

Work can get overwhelming at times.